Marine table.



A. H. PENSE.

MARINE TABLE.

APPLICATION FILED JUNI; 14,1909.

Patented; Nov. 2, 1909.

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ALONZO H. PENCE, F SOMERVILLE, ALABAMA.

MARINE TABLE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented N ov. 2, 1909.

Application filed .Tune 14, 1909. Serial N o. 502,085.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALONZO H. FENCE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Somerville, in the count-y of Morgan and State of Alabama, have invented a new and useful Marine Table, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has relation to tables adapted especially to be used upon shipboard, and it consists in the novel construction and arrangement of its parts as hereinafter shown and described.

The object of the invention is to provide a mounting or support for a table the parts of which are so arranged as to permit the table to remain in a horizontal position irrespective of the rock or pitch of the vessel.

With the above object in view the struet-ure comprises a socket member made up f binary component parts, one of which is rovided with a laterally` disposed slot. A haft is provided with a ball which is reained in the said socket member, and the `haft is free to turn upon its axis and also 'o swing laterally with relation to the socket iember, and also is free to enter t-he slot orm ected with the platform, whereby the same lay be collapsed in a measure when it is lesired to swing the structure against the inder side of a desk when not in use.

In the accompanying drawings :*Figure is a side elevation of the marine table. 1ig 2 is a top plan view of the same, showng the supporting shaft in section. Fig.

is a perspective view of the socket memer.

The socket member l is adapted to be seured to the under side of a deck 2. Said ocket member consists of binary compoent parts, which are secured together by a olt 3, and one of which is provided with a aterally disposed slot 4. A shaft 5 is proided at its upper end with a ball 6 which confined in the socket member l in the isual manner, as the assemblage of the arts of a ball and socket joint. The shaft depends from the member l but is free to turn upon its axis with relation thereto, and is also free to swing laterally at its lower portion with relation to the said socket member. The said shaft 5 is also of such diameter that it may readily enter the slot t provided in one of the parts of the socket member 1.

A platform 7 is attached to the lower portion of the shaft 5, and seats S are mounted upon the platform 7 at the opposite sides of the said shaft. The outer portions 9 of the platform 7 are hingedly connected with the inner portion thereof, as at l0, and are provided with uprights 11 upon which table tops l2 may be positioned or mounted. Hooks or other securing devices 13 are provided to hold the outer portions 9 of the platform 7 in proper positions with relation to the inner portion thereof when the table is in use.

Vhen the table is not in use and it is desired to position the same so that 'the room below the deck will not be interfered with or obstructed by the structure, the hooks 1S may be loosened and the outer portions f) of the platform 7 may be swung back upon the intermediate portion thereof in the manner as indicated in dotted lines in Fig. jl, and when the parts are so positioned the shaft 5 may be swung laterally at its lower portion with relation to the socket l, vrhereby the upper portion of the said shaft is caused to enter the slot A in the socket member l, and the platform 7 is swung adjacent the ceiling' of the deck. Then so positioned the parts may be secured by any usual means. When the table is in use the parts are positioned as illustrated in heavy lines in Fig. l, when it will be seen that the seats 8 may be occupied by persons who may partake of repasts spread upon the table-top 19.. vW hen the parts hang pendent as illustrated in Fig. 1 of the drawings, the shaft 5 is free to turn upon its axis with relation to the socket member l, and as t-he deck tilts with the rock er roll of the vessel, the table top 14 will remain in level position.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure, by Letters Patent, is z- A marine table comprising a -socket 1nember, a shaft having a ball end confined in the socket member and free to rotate upon its axis and to swing laterally with relation to the socket member, a platform attached 5 to the shaft and havin hinged sections, and table supports carried gy the hinged sections. In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own, I have hereto aflix'ed my signature in the presence of two Witnesses.

ALONZO H. FENCE.

VVitnessesf J. A. Mooim Jr., ADA H. FRENCH. 

